The United States
cannot turn back now. It has set itself on a path of no return. -
Having stored up so many enemies, the bully must now remain forever a
bully to ensure his own survival.

By:
M.N. Dean

05/14/03:
America has been hijacked by an
evil and corrupt administration. The Bush administration has used the
country as a weapon of mass destruction. All civilized and
intellectual beings know only too well, that the Muslim populations
they have encountered, and despite Bush's lies, the Muslims are a
good, honest and peaceful people. Bush is using lies, racism and
religion to persecute and kill innocent people and to rape and steal
their countries.

We live in a world full of differences and those differences must be
accepted, embraced and learned from, not used against one another.
Bush and Blair have isolated themselves and their countries from the
world and peace. They have also isolated themselves within their
respective countries.

Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Richard Perle etc, are
members of a vile neo- conservative group: Project for a New American
Century (PNAC). They have targeted Iraq for its oil fields and Middle
East location to fund and support future theatres of war against the
Middle East and Asia. They have a hit list, written in the mid-1990s,
that includes Syria, Libya, Iran, North Korea and many others.

This agenda regrettably was not stopped in Iraq. And one should not
support occupation, with troops in Iraq, we must support the innocent
and the intelligent -- not the evil doers who are slaughtering them or
the ill advised, and some say, idiots who support the Bush
administration. The Middle East must have our heart and our prayers.

Governments have always masked brute self-interest with moral purpose,
of course. But much blatant hypocrisy has done much to undermine the
international goodwill that America garnered in the first months after
the twin towers, particularly in the Arab world.

In a deeper sense, self-deceit also corrupts one's intentions and
one's self. The fact is that the coalition didn't send troops to
Afghanistan to stop women being made to wear the burqa. They sent them
to remove a regime that was harbouring a group that had launched a
vile and bloody attack on civilians in America.

Once that was achieved, the great plans for the rebuilding of
Afghanistan have been let quietly slip from the table. It is difficult
to imagine anything, but the same would happen now that Saddam Hussein
has been removed. The US oil companies would be given the oil
concessions and the future of Iraqi society would be pushed into the "not
our responsibility" tray

The US have won the war in Iraq if indeed it can be called that,
instead of premeditated genocide but its stocks in the market place of
public opinion on the international stage has sustained irreparable
harm. The US will never be the same after this bloody demonstration of
arrogance.

It has choices however. It can genuflect before the world and seek
forgiveness or it has to show that it will discard the more Zionist
than even Israel, image of America. It has to show the World, or while
still holding on to its big stick or, it could continue on its natural
path to become the world bully, the righter of wrongs, the evangelical
purveyor of the Anglo Saxon way, the ordained kingdom.

The United States cannot turn back now. It has set itself on a path of
no return. All bullies at some stage recognise that a lifetime of
offensive behaviour can become boring. The problem is, the bully
cannot afford to affect the behaviour of the pacifist or, he will be
taken out very quickly. Having stored up so many enemies, the bully
must now remain forever a bully to ensure his own survival. Pretty
soon America will become the biggest threat to world peace. Perhaps.
It already is.

With all the talk of the US warmongers about liberating Iraq and
rebuilding it, let us be reminded, about the US objectives in
rebuilding Afghanistan after the end of the campaign in November 2001.
The objectives were; Education, Health, Sanitation facilities,
Enhancement of administrative capacity, Development of Agricultural
sectors and Rebuilding of Roads, Energy and Telecommunication links.

What has happened since? Zilch. Afghanistan is still the country with
much less than a GNP per capita of US$800, a literacy rate of 36% and
a life expectancy at birth of 47 years. Following the trendsetter
Bush, to quote from Professor AfnanFaxan ,universityof Jeddah, in his
article in the "Arab News" Quote ( as recently as
April 10, during a pro-war demonstration in New York, Gov. Pataki told
a cheering crowd: "The war started here on Sept. 11,
2001." Like President Bush, Pataki is just one of countless
US officials busy justifying the invasion of Iraq and promoting the
lie that the Iraqis were responsible for the death of 3,000 people in
the World Trade Centre. Nobody mentions Osama Bin Laden anymore.
Nobody mentions the fact that half the population of southern Iraq
will die from cancers linked to the use of US uranium-tipped shells
and missiles. Nobody mentions the chaos, lawlessness, looting and
torching prevalent in post-war Iraq under US leadership and
occupation.

What these politicians are doing is basically denying the relevance of
morality in politics and preaching the Machiavellian self-serving
doctrine of the "end justifies the means." The logic
is it's good to destroy and kill and maim thousands of civilians if it
means getting rid of their leader who never actually attacked you but
could possibly think of doing so in a distant future; it's good to
leave millions of people without water, power, food, sanitation or
security just as long as you bring American democracy to the region.
The last time I checked the American Heritage Dictionary,
Machiavellian was an ugly word suggestive of deceit, cunning and
expediency. It will continue to be ugly, even if American dictionary
compilers decide to change the hard-core meaning of the word and
impose a new definition.) Unquote

In effect, the ongoing looting and torching of museums, libraries,
universities, schools, hospitals and other cultural and civic
institutions in Iraq is not an attempt at regime change but at culture
change. By stripping the Iraqi people of their collective heritage and
destroying their ancient Mesopotamian roots, the Bush administration
thinks it can recreate Iraq from scratch, reshape and remould its
proud and nationalistic people and turn them into a nation of
illiterates, thieves, cutthroats, and informants who willingly accept
US occupation and Zionist hegemony. The Iraqis are well aware of these
vindictive intentions. This is what the director of Iraq's National
Library had to say to Los Angeles Times about the American-led
destruction of Iraq: "They burned the history of this country.
Now we are standing here beginning from zero. Our memory is
destroyed."

Just think of the irony. When deadly tornadoes ravaged the
four-block-long business district in Pierce City, Mo., last weekend,
one devastated business owner had this to say to a visibly shaken
Missouri Gov. Bob Holden: "How can we save this? This town is
130 years old and you just don't find this anymore." Yes, 130
years is definitely tragic, but at least the Missouri twister was an
unpreventable natural disaster. Can anyone begin to imagine or
comprehend how Iraqis must feel at the deliberate man-made destruction
of thousands and thousands of years of their history and spectacular
culture?

Where did US Defence Secretary Rumsfeld get his creative ideas of
culture destruction and culture change? Probably while he was sifting
through the history books at the Pentagon trying to find a creative
way to contain the Iraqi threat to Israel. He probably hit upon the
Third Punic war in 146 BC when the Romans physically destroyed and
occupied what is today known as Tunisia and founded a new city of
Carthage _ a Roman one. They called it the province of "Africa"
_ a name that was eventually used to refer to the entire continent. In
the same manner, by destroying Iraq and looting its cultural heritage,
Rumsfeld thinks that the US can create the new American province of
Iraq and ultimately rename and repopulate the entire Middle East.

At the heart of this diabolical plan to culture-change Iraq professor
Faxan states, are the evangelical Christians of Samaritan Purse and
the Southern Baptist Convention, who form a large part of Bush's
electoral base and who are deeply pro-Israel. Why on earth are these
Islam phobic missionaries now camped in Jordan waiting to swoop like
vultures into Iraq? The answer is simple. They're there to confiscate
what they perceive to be biblical land, retrieve it from the hands of
the heathens and terrorists and triumphantly claim it for Christendom.
This is what the Reverend Franklin Graham wrote in his book ("The
Name") published last year: "The God of Islam is not
the God of Christian faith_ The two are as different as lightness and
darkness." Richard Land, the chairman of the Ethics and
Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, had
this to say: "The reason most evangelicals support Israel is
that we believe in the bible."

Again to quote from Professor Faxan (Quote) "By and large, the
first eleven chapters of Genesis are set in southern Iraq, in the land
of Shinar or Babylonia, Including the cities of Babel, Uruk, and Akkad.
The cities of northern Iraq, Nimrod and Nineveh, is also part of
Judeo-Christian heritage, just as they are integral to Arab and Muslim
traditions. Till today, well-preserved remains of all these cities can
be seen in Iraq and there's the rub. Can religious extremists in the
US and Israel afford to ignore such a goldmine of archaeological
treasures? It's no wonder that many Christian-Zionist missionaries
have already started settling with the Kurds of northern Iraq,
insisting that Jewish Kurds who migrated to Israel in 1948 must now be
repatriated and given a voice in the interim government. In short,
these evangelists believe that God gave the land of Iraq, indeed all
the lands of Arabia from the Nile to the Euphrates, to the Jews
forever. To them, the invasion of Iraq consecrated "the victory
of the Cross over the Crescent," to quote a famous line said by
the French General, Henri Gouraud, as he kicked Saladin's tomb after
the fall of Damascus in July 1920.

Tragically, this crusader mentality is today prevalent in the White
House. Just listen to the same venomous words of Michael Leedon, a
senior adviser to Bush, who is perhaps the most vocal and violent of
Bush's evangelist team: "God willing, Judgment day is coming to
the Middle East." Let us not forget that Hulegu's army included
Christian soldiers from Armenia and Georgia sent by King Bohemond of
Antioch-Tripoli and King Hethum I of Armenia, who both wanted to
liberate Christian holy places from the Muslim "infidels".
An estimated 800,000 Muslims were massacred by the Mongols in February
1258; Christians and Jews were fortunately spared since Hulegu's wife,
Dokuz, and his chief general, Kitbugha, were both Christians. Like
today's neoconservative advisers to Bush, these two confidantes saw
the destruction of Baghdad as a fulfilment of biblical prophecy
heralding the Day of Judgment. The pleasant irony of course is that
the Mongol conquerors themselves converted to Islam in less than a
century after their invasion." (unquote)

It is also quite telling that Jay Garner, pro-Likud American viceroy
of Iraq and close friend of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, has
set up permanent camp in biblical Ur, the reputed birthplace of the
Prophet Abraham, where excavations in the 1920s and 1930s had yielded
a great temple complex as well as royal tombs packed with sacrificed
servants and gold treasures rivalling the riches of Tutankhamen. His
choice of location is foreboding; it foreshadows the inevitable
expulsion of Iraqi civilians and their replacement with Israeli
settlers and missionaries like Franklin Graham. He has already started
repopulating not only Ur but also the city of Qurna, believed to be
the Garden of Eden, the mythic place where the Tigris and Euphrates
rivers join and where the ancient Eucalyptus known as Adam's tree
stands as a symbol of paradise on earth. This city revered by Jews,
Christians and Muslims alike is now home to the 1st Battalion Royal
Irish Regiment. In addition, the US State Department has organized and
funded the Eden Again project, headed by a group of American
geologists who hope to restore the Garden of Eden and to populate the
city with people they refer to as "refugees and Westernised
Iraqi exiles." The same destiny awaits the fabled ancient
cities of Uruk, Nineveh, Nimrod, Babylon, and many other medieval
Muslim villages in the western reaches of Baghdad now abandoned by
their inhabitants. In the marshland of Uruk (from which the modern
name of Iraq is derived), Western archaeologists have now cordoned off
what they believe to be the lost grave of Iraq's King Gilgamesh, the
hero of the world's oldest epic poem recounting a devastating flood
which has been linked to the story of Noah's Ark. They hope to unearth
Gilgamesh's grave next year if and when the political situation
allows. Just wait until you see wildcat settlements or giant armour-plated
D9 Israeli bulldozers roaming the streets of Uruk, Ur and other
ancient cities of Iraq looking for lucrative sites to excavate or
demolish. Surely then George Bush and Jay Garner wouldn't be able to
masquerade as the Good Samaritans. Or would they?

This war reeks of Israeli revenge and the coming months and years will
see Iraq turning into a grotesque mirror-image of occupied Jerusalem
or the West Bank and Gaza _ replete with the confiscation of land and
revenue, the mass detention of civilians, the demolition of homes, the
door-to-door searches, the roadblocks and 24-hour curfews. Even the
very language and terminology of US Marines is becoming jarringly like
that of the Israeli Defence Forces. Mark Franchetti in The Times
recounts the words of US Marines who had just machine-gunned 15
civilian vehicles at a roadblock in Nassiriya. Here is Corporal Ryan
Dupre venting the same hatred and spewing the same vindictive
analogies as the Israelis: "The Iraqis are sick people and we
are the chemotherapy. I am starting to hate this country. Wait till I
get hold of a friggin' Iraqi. No, I won't get hold of one. I'll just
kill him."

Just think. While we were watching the bereavement, the wailing, the
mourning and the funeral processions in Iraq, a callous Colin Powell
was addressing a cheering AIPAC crowd of ecstatic Zionists. In a
theatrical delivery, he told his pro-war Jewish audience what they
wanted to hear. This war will make Israel "safe" and "secure,"
he exclaimed in a rising crescendo, not forgetting to add the White
House cliché "Let there be no doubt about the outcome. We
will drive Saddam Hussein out." Was this the appropriate time
and place to hold such a radical war rally? Watching him perform that
night in front of this ultra-radical group chillingly explained why he
was fighting so hard to discredit UN weapon inspectors and to stop the
process of inspections in Iraq by any means possible even to the
extent of presenting forged documents of Iraqi uranium procurement.

Obviously, the Arabs and Muslims have been duped into thinking that
America's first black secretary of state is inherently good and peace
loving. They should have known better. Even in 1991, when he was
questioned about the number of Iraqis killed in the Gulf War, Powell
replied: "It's really not a number I am terribly interested
in." Well, Mr. Powell better be interested this time round,
because many people all over the world are counting the death toll and
sooner or later he will be charged with legitimising the mass murder
of Iraqi civilians. Undoubtedly, there will be a day of reckoning as
Bush predicts, but this time it will be the turn of Bush and his war
Cabinet. Clearly the major objective of this war is not to liberate
the people of Iraq; they hardly count in the equation. The military
goal is simply to destroy the country first, obliterate Iraqi culture
next and then try to coerce the natives into accepting subjugation and
invasion. Sharon is closely watching how his old friend Jay Garner
establishes his rule and culture-changes Iraq from enemy to closest
friend and ally. Seeing that President Bush wants to democratise Iraq
and the rest of the Arab world, shouldn't he have asked the Iraqis
first whether they want to be liberated? Why not hold elections? Let's
vote and see how many Iraqis want Tommy Franks or retired Gen. Jay
Garner as their governor. There's no use pretending that President
Bush is a saviour who wants to liberate the Iraqis. In Iraqi eyes, he
is not. And while we're at democratisation, why not hold global
elections to see how many people want President Bush to be the "leader
of the free world," as his Zionist supporters now introduce
him.

Egged on by radical Zionists, Bush has legitimised everything that was
once thought to be in violation of common laws of decency and
morality: Pre-emption, invasion, assassination, regime change, culture
change, wanton destruction, mass detention, torture and the use of
brutal overwhelming force. But history has shown us what befalls
people who perpetrate such crimes.

If we examine it dispassionately we will come to the conclusion that
America has a natural affinity for waging war against non-white
countries. Lest we forget, we must remind ourselves that America, that
bastion of freedom, Christianity, Capitalism and televangelists is the
only country to have used atomic bombs on another country. Not only
did the United States drop an atomic bomb on Hiroshima in August 1945,
but three days later when the Japanese were still dazed over that
'shock and awe', the Americans dropped another one on Nagasaki.

World opinion gained exponential traction against this war but, we as
a World failed to prevent it. Pretty soon the American public will
come to realise the error of their ways in electing (?) a president
who has always sounded like a high school dropout rather than an Ivy
League graduate. Pretty soon the US population will wake up to the
realisation that other people in disparate parts of this globe whether
they be black, yellow, mottled or cross- hatched, are very similar to
the typical individual on Wall Street.

As his Top Gun fantasy last week made only too obvious, Mr Bush
enormously enjoys playing soldier -- especially when the situation
permits him to order others (blacks and poor-whites, mainly, meaning
those whom Mr Bush's scary, to note, fiscal policies are destined to
turn into un-persons in the New America) to go out and do the killing
and the getting killed, while, in preparation for his carrier landing,
Perhaps, he takes ditching lessons in the White House swimming pool.

There was a time when patriotic Americans from both parties would have
denounced any president who tried to take political advantage of his
role as commander-in-chief. But that, it seems, was another country.'
a long time ago. The American, in the street has got to be roused out
of his slumber, we pray, to recognise the world as a True global
village, with links not only of economic aspirations, but also pain,
blood, tears and sweat, the harder it will be for them to create
home-grown despots with power to bring about chaos in this world.

The Iraqis do not want a foreigner to rule them, especially when they
see the Americans exporting their oil, while they go hungry. Nor, are
the Iraqi 's sure, America has a truly "Made in America"
brand of democracy for export to Iraq. America has got to first
legitimately elect Presidents!

Everyone knows, Americans count in the World as hardworking,
Industrious and Compassionate and loved. It's the present
Administration that came into power under questionable terms that is
causing America to be known as a Weapon of Mass Destruction.